The mens kit is based on a studio portrait from the early 20th century of a dancer with the Horwich Prize Medal Morris Dancers. The colours used in the kit are the blue and gold of the Wakefield city crest. Starting at the top the outfit includes a blue cap with gold tassel. A white shirt is worn with blue arm bands and across the right shoulder a blue baldrick trimmed with gold fringing is worn. At the waist an "old gold" sash is worn with the "loose" end hanging at the right hip. At each hip a blue and gold rosette is worn. Black velveteen breeches are worn with "old gold" socks. Finally a pair of black clogs, with attatched bell pads, complete the outfit.
The beads are not a hippie affectation of the 1970's but part of the traditional kit as seen in many photographs from the late 19th early 20th Century. The choice of beads or not is left to each dancer and the theme is also personal choice. Some go for simple coloured beads, whilst other "themes" have been bone, leather or metal decorations.
This outfit has seen little or no change in the whole of the team history. Minor variations have arisen when materials have been hard to source but on the whole the outfit works well and the lads like it so why change it? 2003: the material is now moleskin. Yes we have finally sorted out the "new" material for the mens leggings. Note that no animals were harmed in the manufacture of the breeches, except of course the odd shock horror when some of the chaps realised that it wasn't the old kit shrinking that made them a tight fit after all. Now we just need to sort out the "Old Gold" question and where to find an old-fashioned cricket cap in blue and all will be tickety boo. The womens outfits on the other hand have been a little more fashion driven.